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i'm way too late to get into nirvana, the amount of boring fans they had always alienated me from the music, but i got ahold of the 6 albums that matter and right now i'm listening to bleach. now i can listen to these dudes without any prejudice. to be honest all of this is because of Last Days, i want it to be very good, but so far i'm liking them.

I haven't met anyone who didn't like OK Computer, unless they hated Radiohead to be different. Nirvana's Nevermind may have defined a generation, but it was a pretty weak album. Beatles defined a generation, but they became consistent with their albums. If Nirvana were to release Nevermind now, who'd give a shit? (Aside from Kurt coming back from the dead and their droves of fans worshipping him with more proof that he may be a messiah)

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"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

I haven't met anyone who didn't like OK Computer, unless they hated Radiohead to be different. Nirvana's Nevermind may have defined a generation, but it was a pretty weak album. Beatles defined a generation, but they became consistent with their albums. If Nirvana were to release Nevermind now, who'd give a shit? (Aside from Kurt coming back from the dead and their droves of fans worshipping him with more proof that he may be a messiah)

I have to agree.

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If you listen to Nevermind now, sure it may sound overrated to some people... but they seem to forget what happened in 1991.

I remember 1991. They were overrated then too. In Utero is a much better album anyway.

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Another reason I know that list is bullshit is because 'ok computer' isn't number 1.

Nirvana: Unplugged In New York was totally amazing, though.... though it was mostly covers.

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"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

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A new Nirvana documentary is in the making - one which will be narrated by Kurt Cobain himself.

Film makers were in the singer's home town of Aberdeen, Washington recently to start work on a documentary about Cobain.

However in a unique twist the singer himself will narrate the film, with producers using more than 25 hours of interview tapes recorded by journalist Michael Azerrad between December 1992 and March 1993.

Azerrad is most famous for his Nirvana biography 'Come As You Are', which is regarded as one of the most authoratitive books on the band.

"The film is based on a series of interviews that Michael Azerrad conducted with Kurt while researching the book. There are more than 25 hours of these audio interviews in all, none of which have been heard before by anyone," director AJ Schnack told NME.COM.

"I worked with Michael to cull an approximately 95-minute audio track from these interviews. While I'm not sure that 'narrated' is exactly the right word, you will be listening in on conversations between Kurt and Michael, with Kurt telling his life story for that book. There are no additional interviews with other figures from Kurt's life, just Kurt speaking, with an occasional question or comment from Michael."

The other members of Nirvana are not involved with the currently untitled film, which is set to be screened at various film festivals next autumn.

Schnack added: "It pretty much covers his whole life leading-up to the interviews with the emphasis being more on him and his general take on things rather than on general band developments. We're not using any archival footage at all. The music will focus on bands that influenced Kurt during the various stages of his life. It's unclear what part, if any, Nirvana music may play in the finished film."